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<\/p>\nYesterday, I decided to stay in bed after my alarm went off (I really only use it as a guide anyway.) And I’m very glad I did. I went back to sleep for another hour and a half, and it was in that hour and a half during which I had a dream in which I was able to share a hug with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. What a gift! I don’t remember the other ircumstances of the dream except that they were equally unlikely but also mostly pleasant.<\/p>\n
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The Atlantic – The Next Face of the Democratic Party<\/a> HuffPost – Republicans Already Lying That California\u2019s Recall Election Is \u2018Rigged\u2019<\/a> The Hill – Police brace for Capitol rally defending Jan. 6 mob<\/a> Food for Thought – Yesterday, I decided to stay in bed after my alarm went off (I really only use it as a guide anyway.) And I’m very glad I did. I went back to sleep for another hour and a half, and it was in that hour and a half during which I had a dream in which […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3781,4115,3803],"class_list":["post-45078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-elections","tag-justice","tag-terrorism","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Democratic members of Congress won\u2019t talk about any of this publicly, as if Pelosi might suddenly appear and pull their hearts from their chests. Jeffries, carefully, left it at telling me that growing up in a Black church taught him to respect and value his elders. But none of the two dozen Democratic members of Congress and party insiders I spoke with privately could present a serious alternative to Jeffries. He\u2019d have the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is stacked with influential members. He\u2019s popular with his colleagues, even those who grumble that he was too meek to challenge Pelosi earlier\u2014\u201cHakeem is really good at taking in both ideas but also criticism, and not being defensive about it,\u201d said Representative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, Jeffries\u2019s close ally in House leadership, who is expected to end up in the No. 2 spot if he\u2019s No. 1. In conversations with colleagues, Clark and Jeffries have said they\u2019re moving forward as a team, determined to avoid the rumbling rivalry Pelosi and Hoyer have had since their days as congressional interns, in 1963.
\nClick through for the story.<\/a> The Atlantic has a paywall, but you get a couple of free articles per month, so you may want to “print” it if you are interrupted.\u00a0 Of course this is pure speculation.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Former President Donald Trump \u2015 who was impeached for inciting the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection with lies about the 2020 presidential election \u2015 weighed in on the Sept. 14 California recall on Tuesday with a complaint about the state\u2019s early vote-by-mail system. \u201cIt\u2019s probably rigged,\u201d Trump said during an interview on right-wing cable channel Newsmax. \u201cThey\u2019re sending out all ballots \u2015 the ballots are mail-out, mail-in ballots. I guess you even have a case where you can make your own ballot. When that happens nobody\u2019s going to win except these Democrats.\u201d
\nClick through for details.<\/a> Of course they are. While that in itself is bad news, it is good news that they are this worried. But it’s not an excuse not to vote.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The Capitol Police declined to comment Tuesday on any specific security plans for Sept. 18. But Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the department is \u201cclosely monitoring\u201d the event and expressed confidence that \u201cthe work we are doing now will make sure our officers have what they need to keep everyone safe.\u201d The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is also planning an \u201cincreased presence around the city\u201d where demonstrations will take place on Sept. 18 and may close off some streets, a spokesperson said.
\nClick through for what’s known and a few thoughts<\/a>. I truly hope I am seeing ghostss, but I am concerned that September 18 and September 11 are both Saturdays, and one of those dates has symbolic significance. And Republicans lie. I hope they are also preparing for tomorrow. It never hurts to be prepared.<\/p>\n
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